. The lays of a lawyer . TO AMARYLLIS AT NEWPORT KNOW a place upon the cliffsConcealed from view of passing skiffs, Whose very outlines, darling,In misty clouds the fog elfs we can hear the sea-dogs listen to their snarling: Where no unwelcome gossips eyeUpon our loving tryst may spy At eve or in the morning;Where you and I need make no bonesOer treating Mrs. Grundy Jones And les ondits with scorning : So let us meet there safe from should I kiss you now and then While fleecy fog-banks hide us,As long as it were known to noneWhy, very little harm were done. Although n
. The lays of a lawyer . TO AMARYLLIS AT NEWPORT KNOW a place upon the cliffsConcealed from view of passing skiffs, Whose very outlines, darling,In misty clouds the fog elfs we can hear the sea-dogs listen to their snarling: Where no unwelcome gossips eyeUpon our loving tryst may spy At eve or in the morning;Where you and I need make no bonesOer treating Mrs. Grundy Jones And les ondits with scorning : So let us meet there safe from should I kiss you now and then While fleecy fog-banks hide us,As long as it were known to noneWhy, very little harm were done. Although no bonds have tied us. , 77. JOAN HOUGH Joan be close on sixtyyearOld age hath kissed her lightly,A white hair there, a wrinkle here, A step not quite so sprightlyAs when in Newport years agoShe charmed me with her dancing—They call me now, that stiff old beau,But she is still entrancing. She knows I love her and to boot She seems to like my after forty years my suit Is still in course of what of that, and that my knee Has grown too stiff to bend suit to her shall always be Until friend Death shall end it. 78 EPITAPH OF A CUR EMPERJidelis, semper idem^ Semper paratus to bark or to bite,Sic itur ad astra, and though he waslame,Deo juvante, hell get there allright. Semel pro semper hes gone to his rest. His barks are all barked and finished hiswork, Feccator magnus he was at his best,Siste viator et or a pro Turk,
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